At the Dardanelles the struggle proceeds on the accustomed lines,
punctuated by occasional telegrams from Athens as to minor successes and the gaining of ground in small quantities by the Allies. We continue to hold our own, and the Turks are showing some signs of being war-weary. That is as much as it is safe to say. Meanwhile a curious and, we hold, signifi- cant piece of news comes from Constantinople. The Turks have begun to entrench furiously close outside the old Byzantine Walls—i.e., quite (aloes to the city boundaries. This does not look as if they thought they were going to have the Bulgarians as their allies. The Balkan States still continue, in the words of the old hymn, to
" Stand and shiver on the bank And fear to launch away."
That is very natural, if not very wise. Some day somebody will make the plunge, and then swear it is "comfortably warm," and the rest will follow.
